Re: Weight Distribution- Convertible Coupe

Posted by su8overdrive On 2023/4/14 18:33:06

If your car's free of sidemounts, don't add them. Old front-engined cars left the showroom floor with a tendency to plow (understeer), so if you see your fine 120--arguably Packard's best ever product for double or triple the money-- as a road car, not a garish clown car with every bolt-on option as so many old domestic owners in recent years, skip them. The front coil springs in sidemount cars have a different part number, which should tell you something.

The above posters right. Sidemounts detract from your car's trim lines, look especially silly on the diminutive juniors, and make attending to the engine bay a nuisance. Packard's 1933 Twelve "Car of the Dome," which was a bigger hit with both judges and public alike than Cadillac's V-16 aero coupe, Duesenberg's "Twenty Grand" and Pierce's Silver Arrow sedans at the Chicago World's Fair, was free of sidemounts.

Packard continued sidemounts into 1941, a losing year other than their new Clipper, simply as some older conservative folks liked them, the sort who more than likely despised FDR.

In the late '70s, when things more lax out here in the greater CA Bay Area, i pulled the '40 120 i then owned off the freeway at one of those big rig weigh stations. The attendant was glad to let me drive across the scale, first front end, then rear. Would that i still had that receipt and could share the numbers with you.